Buying In or Selling Out?: The Commercialization of the American Research University by Donald G. Stein (Editor)2004 | ISBN: 0813533740 | English | 200 pages | PDF | 0.50 MB

Universities were once ivory towers where scholarship and teaching were unbiased and free from commercial pressure and special interests––or so we tell ourselves. Whether they were ever as pure as we think, it is certain that they are pure no longer. Administrators benefit from patents by commercializing faculty discoveries; they pour money into sports with the expectation that these spectacles will somehow bring in revenue; they sign contracts with soda and fast-food companies, legitimizing the dominance of a single brand on campus; and they charge for distance learning courses that they market widely.

Robert Peston examines the case for staying or leaving the European Union ahead of the referendum in June. Over two programmes, the ITV Political Editor asks whether leaving really will lead to some medium-term drop in prosperity, as some predict, and he examines if that is a price worth paying for increased control over laws and borders. Peston also travels to Switzerland, a country outside of the EU, to see if the UK could embrace their way of working.

Swamp Dogg never stopped working in the late '70s but after 1974's Have You Heard This Story??, his last stab at a major, he faded away, grinding out records on labels that were, at best, regionally known. Things changed in 1981 when Takoma – a roots label then owed by Chrysalis Records – decided to sign Dogg and fund the recording of I'm Not Selling Out – I'm Buying In!, an album that represented both an artistic comeback and something of a signal boost as well. It, like all the other Swamp Dogg records before it, did not sell but it did garner attention upon its release, and it stands as one of his best and better-known albums. Despite Dogg's proclamation in the liner notes that he produced this album "because I love Rock & Roll," there's not much three-chord boogie here: just "Wine, Women and Rock 'n' Roll," plus the cheeky revival "Total Destruction to Your Mind Once Again."